When I was admitted to the University of Alabama, I decided to get a puppy. So I adopted an adorable Golden Retriever(金毛猎犬) puppy against my parents’ wishes.
Soon, I realized my parents were right. The dog was so naughty that it caused me a lot of trouble every day. In fact, she soon earned the nickname(绰号) Bella the Devil at school.
However, as time went by, she taught me how to be a better dog mom, and I taught her how to be a better dog. We became best friends and did everything together. Bella was there for me all the time: parties, restaurants, games, even dates! We loved spending time together. By the time I was a senior, Bella and I developed a stronger relationship. She was truly my best friend.
In the third year, I worked at the local college l bar not far from the house. One night, I was running late. Bella and I had been with friends down the street when I realized it was already 9:00 p.m. We had to rush home so I could make it to work by 9:30. I ran through the front door and jumped to the bathroom to have a shower. Bella followed me into the bathroom and lay in her usual place on the bathroom floor. Then I heard my front door open. It was so loud that I thought it was strange. It couldn’t be my roommate for she had flown to New York. I turned off the shower and yelled her name. No answer.
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Instantly(立刻), I knew something was seriously wrong.
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Then I went outside to find Bella with the policemen.
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The city of Zibo has never seen so many visitors.
As the sun begins to set, the aroma of sizzling meat falls the air and draws in more
The city was barely known by outsiders
Zibo- style barbecue’s classic three-piece set contains roast lamb, green onions, and nan bread, which,
Behind Zibo’s sudden fame
To promote Zibo-style barbecue, Zibo has launched two dozen “special barbecue trains,” where local tourism officials would serve tourists
3 . One day in 2012, David and Pam Brennan were walking on the shore(岸) near their house in Brunswick, Maine. Then they
Their first
Within a year, the two had completed volunteer
“We have transported many a seal in our car. Those rides are kind of fun and also a little
“We feel a great responsibility to
| A．saved | B．remembered | C．saw | D．held |
| A．careful | B．excited | C．thankful | D．concerned |
| A．once | B．still | C．almost | D．even |
| A．visit | B．advice | C．call | D．attention |
| A．Soon | B．Suddenly | C．Again | D．Clearly |
| A．guessed | B．complained | C．trusted | D．proved |
| A．take place | B．take part | C．lose interest | D．lose heart |
| A．form | B．work | C．treatment | D．training |
| A．reason | B．hope | C．time | D．possibility |
| A．ready | B．surprised | C．nervous | D．safe |
| A．showing off | B．coming back | C．running away | D．staying up |
| A．dangerous | B．crazy | C．uncomfortable | D．short |
| A．free | B．awake | C．busy | D．cool |
| A．own | B．help | C．like | D．prevent |
| A．keep | B．live | C．accept | D．do |
4 . The suburb I live in backs on to a large nature reserve. One morning I saw a koala (考拉) sitting in a palm tree in my front yard. I phoned around to ask what I could
I’ve always been befriending animals. As a young kid I used to pick up lizard eggs and
Once I had accreditation (合格证), I volunteered with the RSPCA in 2014, rehabilitating (使康复) wildlife. I was an ambulance driver,
One day, I thought why not
I cut the leaves of the eucalyptus trees for the koalas to eat and look after the
As a kid I would never have imagined doing this. I feel like I’m the
| A．learn from | B．do about | C．require of | D．save for |
| A．kicking | B．shooting | C．coaching | D．blowing |
| A．together | B．illegally | C．angrily | D．guiltily |
| A．roll | B．sell | C．break | D．hatch |
| A．rescue | B．admire | C．purchase | D．identify |
| A．courses | B．races | C．fairs | D．shows |
| A．watching | B．attending | C．recording | D．assessing |
| A．made out | B．ran across | C．gave up | D．cared for |
| A．leave | B．start | C．dismiss | D．advertise |
| A．house | B．hunt | C．train | D．amuse |
| A．confuse | B．direct | C．feed | D．test |
| A．aggressive | B．hungry | C．deserted | D．injured |
| A．sold | B．released | C．thrown | D．dragged |
| A．quietest | B．greediest | C．noisiest | D．luckiest |
| A．guess | B．calling | C．treat | D．fault |
5 . Interactive software that “reads” and analyses footprints left by black rhinos (犀牛) can be used to monitor the movements of the animals in the wild, giving conservationists a new way to keep watch on the endangered species and help keep it safe from poachers (偷猎者), according to a Duke University-led study.
The software, called the Footprint Identification Technique (FIT), uses advanced technology to analyze more than 100 measurements of a rhino's footprint. Because each rhino's footprint is as special as a human fingerprint, the analyzed images can be collected electronically in a global database of previously collected footprint images for matching.
“If you find a match, you can identify the individual animal who left the mark and, by plotting the locations of all the other places where marks have been seen, track its movements without disturbing it or coming into close enough contact with it,” said Zoe Jewell, a professor at Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment, who co-led the study and is co-creator of FIT.
“It's a cost-effective approach that not only protects the health of the rhino and the human, but also brings a centuries-old tracking skill into the 21st Century,” she said. Jewell and her colleagues are now working with Namibia's Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Tourism to train wildlife conservationists, land managers and local guides how to use FIT.
Namibia is home to an estimated 2,000 black rhinos, or about 90% of the species' total population worldwide. Though legally owned by the government, the animals are distributed geographically on private lands across the country.
The FIT software can also do a survey of footprints throughout the protected area and take measurements from each footprint to estimate the number of rhinos in that area. This can be useful information for calculation resource needs to monitor the animals effectively. This creates an interactive library that anti-poaching patrols(反偷猎巡逻)can use to search for animals at the highest risk, including those whose footprints haven’t been showing up in recent years.
1. What is the purpose of the software?| A．To promote the development of technology. |
| B．To protect black rhinos from being hunted. |
| C．To analyze the footprints of illegal poachers. |
| D．To save endangered species across the world. |
| A．It owns various functions. | B．It goes to the market. |
| C．It is perfectly practical. | D．It is more than popular. |
| A．It brings the best advantage for the lowest cost. |
| B．It helps increase the population of black rhinos. |
| C．It raises people's awareness of the environment. |
| D．It strengthens the tie between humans and nature. |
| A．Optimistic. | B．Hopeless. | C．Worrying. | D．Uncertain. |
1. 目前人们很崇尚低碳生活；
2. 低碳生活的重要性；
3. 怎样创建低碳生活。
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On the Low-carbon Life
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7 . Some scientists have traced the increase in earthquakes, especially in areas not known for the presence of fault lines or past seismic (地震的) activity, to human actions. The idea of humans causing earthquakes may seem strange at first. After all, you can run around your backyard and jump up and down as you want, and the ground isn’t going to start shaking. However, scientists have identified a variety of large scale human activities that can result in earthquakes.
Scientists have confirmed over 700 places where human activities have caused earthquakes over the last century. While many human-related earthquakes are mild and don’t cause much damage, some of them can be serious and dangerous. In fact, scientists believe human activity has caused earthquakes with magnitudes as high as 7.9 on the Richter scale.
Scientists believe most human-related earthquakes are the result of mining. As companies drill deeper and deeper below Earth’s surface to get natural resources, holes left behind can cause instability that leads to collapses that cause earthquakes. Another human activity leading to earthquakes is fracking (水力压裂) for oil and gas, including the high pressure waste water processing that usually goes with fracking. In this process, water, sand and chemicals are pressed underground under high pressure to break rocks to release natural resources.
Building large dams can also cause earthquakes. For example, about 80, 000 people died in China in 2008 as a result of a 7.9-magnitude earthquake caused by 320 million tons of water that had been collected in the Zipingpu Reservoir after a large dam was built over a known fault line.
These aren’t the only human activities that can result in earthquakes, though. Scientists point out that earthquakes can also be caused by other human activities, such as construction of skyscrapers and nuclear explosions.
1. What does the underlined part “fault lines” in Paragraph 1 refer to?| A．Regions with active human actions. | B．Places associated with natural balance. |
| C．Zones where natural resources are rich. | D．Areas where earthquakes tend to happen. |
| A．They break the balance of nature. | B．They destroy the stability of rocks. |
| C．They use high pressure to get resources. | D．They do much damage to Earth’s surface. |
| A．The 2008 earthquake is the worst in history. | B．Construction of dams should be stopped. |
| C．Tons of water must cause earthquakes. | D．The location of a dam matters much. |
| A．Nature punishes humans by means of earthquakes. | B．Progress has been made on earthquake research. |
| C．Humans are to blame for some earthquakes. | D．Earthquakes are no longer nature-made. |
8 . I’ve always found that hiking in nature makes me feel happier, and of course decreased stress may be a big part of the reason why. But, Gregory Bratman, of Stanford University, has found evidence that nature may impact our mood (心情) in other ways, too.
In one 2015 study, Bratman and his colleagues chose 60 volunteers to take a 50-minute walk in either a natural setting or an urban setting. Before and after the walk, the volunteers were assessed on their emotional state and on cognitive (认知的) measures, such as how well they could perform tasks requiring short-term memory. Results showed that those who walked in nature experienced less anxiety and rumination (focused attention on unsatisfying side of oneself), as well as more positive emotions, in comparison to the urban walkers. They also improved their performance on the memory tasks.
In another study in 2017, he and his colleagues furthered these findings by focusing on how walking in nature affects rumination—which has been associated with the onset of anxiety—while also using fMRI technology to look at brain activity. Volunteers who took a 90-minute walk in either a natural setting or an urban setting had their brains scanned (扫描) before and after their walks and were surveyed on self-reported rumination levels.
Even so, volunteers who walked in a natural setting reported decreased rumination after the walk, and they showed increased activity in the subgenual prefrontal cortex, an area of the brain whose inactivity is related to depression and anxiety—a finding that suggests nature may have important impacts on mood.
Bratman believes results like these need to reach city planners and others whose decisions impact our natural spaces. “Ecosystem services are being included into decision making at all levels of public policy, land use planning, and urban design, and it’s very important to be sure to include findings from psychology into these decisions,” he says.
1. What did the 2015 study find about people walking in nature?| A．Their memory was improved. |
| B．Their mood remained the same. |
| C．They had more chance to succeed. |
| D．They preferred living in a natural setting. |
| A．Bratman’s theory. | B．The results of the 2017 study. |
| C．The process of the 2017 study. | D．The volunteers’ performance. |
| A．House designing. | B．City planning. |
| C．Physical training. | D．Health education. |
| A．Science Contributes to Better Health |
| B．Ways to Reduce Stress and Lift Mood |
| C．Studies Show Various Benefits of Hiking |
| D．Nature Makes You Happier and Less Anxious |
9 . Researchers from The University of Queensland(UQ)have helped design a new app to protect birds at risk of extinction across the world by eliminating language barriers among scientists. The Bird Language Diversity web app will help provide a “birds eye view”, ensuring vital information is shared to improve worldwide conservation.
UQ’s Dr Pablo Negret said the research team analysed more than 10,000 bird species, and found that 1,587 species have 10 languages or more spoken within their distributions. “Scientific information on species can be spread across different languages, but valuable information can go missing or get lost in translation,” Dr Negret said. “Without enough sharing of information, this can affect the effectiveness of conservation measures.”
Take the common bird Pochard for example. It is classified as vulnerable species(易危种)and crosses 108 countries in Europe, Asia and north Africa, where a total of 75 official languages are spoken. The survival of the common Pochard, and so many other species, depends on effective cooperation and policy agreements among people with diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds.
This app reveals where threatened and migratory birds exist geographically, in relation to the language spoken in those regions. ”We hope the app will encourage researchers and conservation organisations to interact with their peers in other regions, especially if they speak different languages, and be a starting point to allow everyone to work together to protect threatened species,” Dr Negret said.
Dr Tatsuya Amano, a researcher and the co-author of the paper, said this work could extend further than bird species. “Any species, whether they’re mammals, amphibians(两栖动物), or plants, with a range crossing multiple countries will be impacted by language barriers, as well as species that migrate across different countries, such as marine species and butterflies,” he said. ”The significance of the impact of poor communication on such an important issue is evident, and is the reason why we’re working hard to improve science communication across languages.”
1. What does the underlined word “eliminating“ in paragraph 1 mean?| A．Giving in to. | B．Coming across. | C．Putting up with. | D．Breaking down. |
| A．Ensuring the effectiveness of protective measures. |
| B．Helping people know more about scientists’ efforts. |
| C．Spreading knowledge of the diversity of birds worldwide. |
| D．Compromising the effectiveness of conservation measures. |
| A．The producer of the app. | B．The organizations involved. |
| C．The location of endangered birds. | D．The information of new geographers. |
| A．Birds Protection Is an Urgency | B．A New Bird App Spreads Its Wings |
| C．A New Bird App Helps Learn Languages | D．Poor Communication Impacts Cooperation |
10 . Without sharp reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, climate change threatens future Winter Olympic Games because their locations would be too warm to host the events, a new study has found.
If the world’s high emissions continue their trend, by the 2080s all but one of the 21 cities that previously hosted the Winter Games - Sapporo, Japan - would not be able to do so again. Among them, 6 cities would be considered “marginal” while 14 would even be seen “unreliable”— meaning the right conditions for snow and athlete safety cannot be met.
But that won’t necessarily happen if the world takes urgent action and follows the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement, according to Daniel Scott, the lead researcher for the University of Waterloo’s report. Under that deal, nearly 200 countries agreed to greatly cut their collective greenhouse emissions.
Athletes and coaches surveyed by the researchers said they re already seeing the effect climate change has on their sports. “Some of the coaches that did the survey have been coaches in the sport for 30 years,” Scott said. “They’ve traveled the world, back to the same competitions, and they’ve seen that certain competitions don’t happen, as regularly or uninterruptedly as they used to because of warmer temperatures.”
The Summer Olympics are also feeling the effects of climate change. Tokyo’s Olympic and Paralympic Games are likely one of—if not—the hottest and most humid Games on record. Daily temperatures reached 80F high with high humidity (湿度) that could make it feel like 100°F.
But winter sports seem more strongly influenced by the impact of a warmer world. During the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, skiers were overheating in the same way a marathon runner would at nearly 90F weather. Due to the great impact, the study makes us worry that outdoor games may have to move indoors or be held at a different time of year altogether in order to accommodate higher temperatures.
1. What does the underlined word “marginal” in Paragraph 2 probably mean?| A．Almost unqualified. |
| B．Pretty satisfactory. |
| C．Rather unpopular. |
| D．Quite suitable. |
| A．To show the spirit of the Olympics. |
| B．To stress the impact of climate change. |
| C．To reveal the cause of warmer climate. |
| D．To compare summer and winter Olympics |
| A．Conservative. |
| B．Tolerant. |
| C．Optimistic. |
| D．Concerned. |
| A．Global climate changes. |
| B．Greenhouse gas emissions. |
| C．The Winter Olympics crisis. |
| D．The future Olympic Games. |
